From: Jonathan Hays (nomad@gfoyle.org)
Date: Wed Mar 24 2004 - 10:23:14 GMT-3
you wrote:
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On
>Behalf Of Howard C. Berkowitz
>Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 12:39 PM
>To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: Re: NetMasterClass training
>Frustrating? An understatement, and I speak literally of your
>example. Something I see all too frequently on groupstudy is very
>nonstandard spelling, probably in the style of people who make much
>use of instant messaging. I can understand this, to an extent, for
>people for whom English is not their first language, because they may
>not see as much proper writing.
>
= = =
The main reason for nonstandard spelling is laziness, IMHO. Most people
(even those whose first language is not English) are using an email
client with a built-in spell checker and a lot of people can't be
bothered so they disable the spell checker.
Of course a spell checker won't fix grammatical errors such as the use
of 'you' in place of 'your' (which I am guilty of myself) but it does
cut back on misunderstandings and makes an email or GroupStudy post
easier to read. Think of it this way, by spell checking your emails you
are removing noise from the communication channel and increasing the
probability that more people will read your post and not just hit the
delete key because the first few sentences are incomprehensible (this is
what I do all too often when I encounter gibberish in Groupstudy posts).
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